Care of Wooden Floors was recommended to me by Mr Smith (@changeist), and for that I will be eternally grateful. While it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, Will Wiles’ first novel was one of the best books I read this year.
Told mostly through interior monologues and observation, Wiles’ nameless protagonist sets off on a journey to hell by agreeing to housesit for an orchestra conductor friend, (who’s not really a friend) as he must leave his East European home country to begin divorce proceedings against his American wife. It all sounds benign and straightforward enough, but once settled into the pristine apartment and acquainted with the two feline inhabitants, the Narrator begins finding notes, written with exacting detail, as to how he must or must not do things while there.
